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The Horn of Roland
The Horn of Roland
The Horn of Roland
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The Horn of Roland

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A famous composer’s post-WWII homecoming is marred by death threats in a gripping tale of suspense from the Edgar Award–winning creator of Brother Cadfael.
 
Three decades ago, a teenaged Lucas Cornith joined the Austrian Resistance, helping to lead escapees from German oppression across the Alps to Switzerland and safety. But when Hitler’s storm troopers got too close, Lucas fled his homeland, leaving his compatriots behind to face the Nazi’s wrath.
 
Many years later, Cornith is returning to his hometown for the first time since the war’s end. Now a world-renowned classical composer, he’s premiering a new musical work, The Horn of Roland, at a festival in Gries-am-See, the tiny Alpine village of his birth.
 
But not everyone wants to welcome him home with open arms. Someone here refuses to forgive and will never forget the past. And unless Cornith can unmask his mystery antagonist in time, the premier of his new composition might well be the composer’s swan song.
 
The Edgar, Agatha, and Gold Dagger Award–winning author of the Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries and “beguiling writer” perfectly blends intrigue and suspense in this novel of a man haunted by his past (The Daily Telegraph).
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 1, 2016
ISBN9781480443792
The Horn of Roland
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Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter, 1913–1995) is a writer beloved of millions of readers worldwide and has been widely adapted for radio and television, including her Brother Cadfael crime novels, which were made into a series starring Derek Jacobi. She has been the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Edgar Award for Best Novel, Agatha Award for Best Novel, and was awarded an OBE for her services to literature in 1994.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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    A mystery with classical music. World famous composer and conductor Lucas Corinth is invited to premiere his new work "the Horn of Roland" in an alpine town. (1974). Average - an okay mystery, but not terribly exciting or memorable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Lucas Corinth, now a famous compoier returns with his daughter Una to his small Austrian home town where he had been involved in the anti-Nazi underground as a youth, leading refuges over the mountains to Switzerland. Ten a young man appears saying he is the son of a refugee whom Corinth betrayed...Somehow what I remember from this story is the music --his setting of the horn call of Roland, a motif that recurs at a critical moment.

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